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How To Run A Contest On WordPress

Several plugins are mentionned; also note that myCred is awesome with BP.

The third-party CMS users would need to be registered with BuddyPress (WordPress). Registration will allocate each person with an ID, username and so on. Without these, authentication won’t be possible.

You’ll probably need to import existing users, and then going forward, each time someone registers with the third-party CMS, you’d need to automatically sign them up with BuddyPress (WordPress).

Globally, you could consider what’s talken here as a common point of view
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-wp-beside-another-cms

Searching/asking for a plugin may be a good idea, but if you don’t give the name of the other CMS, it’s quite impossible to give an answer, or simply an advice.

Guess you assume it right for now, at least.

Custom code goes to child-theme functions.php

Customizing BuddyPress needs a certain level of competence with PHP and the inner workings of BuddyPress & WordPress.

Please read https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/

and see also https://codex.wordpress.org/Functions_File_Explained

@jld142 Based on title of this topic, you only want to change the styling aka CSS. If that’s the case, you do not need to add any BP folders/files in your child theme. Just override the style in your theme’s style.css file or whatever stylesheet is enqueued in your premium theme.

If however, you want to change the markup or functionality in some form or the other, then you’d have to look at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.3.2/src/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php#L22 and make the fix in your child theme’s functions.php – no need to copy over any BP folder.

also the following link MAY be of some help

Please follow the discussion into the chat – just at the time i was very slow on the uptake!

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/75261/how-to-when-a-bp-group-created-automatically-create-a-wp-category

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Yes you need a function.
To call the function on change, you need to use ajax.
https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX

Before saying it’s not working, please follow the instruction.
Read my previous answer slowly and check the path i indicated.

wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-es_ES.mo

According to the screenshot, your site use the mexican version of WordPress.

Unfortunatly, there is no mexican spanish translation avaible for BuddyPress !

This force you to use spanish (es_ES and NOT es_MX) as site language to get automatically the es_ES BP translation.

In other words, you can’t use mexican language on main site if you want BP in spanish.

Translation can be found here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/2.2.x

Use the WP function
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_term

@jordanboon0 – certainly there is more than one way to accomplish what you are proposing here.

My first thought upon reading this is is that you can create a “multi-user blog” with wordpress. Each new artist becomes a “contributor” or even “editor” upon sign up, and they can post a new gallery easily, then your admin(s) can choose what new galleries get published.

You go do all that with a single blog / wordpress install – and do it without buddypress, just make a cool custom author page for whichever theme you want to use.

There are many plugins and settings for things like front end uploads, post author profiles, wordpress gallery fancy stuff and all that.

You could also put buddypress into this mix and give your artists some extra social network stuff like private messages, groups and all that – however if you go with buddypress and and that layer to handle everything (without getting your users to submit posts / pages via standard wordpress) – then you have to get into a media plugin like rtmedia, mediapress, or – another one posted about a month ago.. anyhow – those media plugins are kind of their own “silos” – customizing how they work is not a few wp repo plugins away – and support for what you may want to do with them may be disappointing.

Of course you could take WP, add in BP if you really want the social layer, and still use the main site blog as kind of a “multi-user (or “group” blog) and do it that way.. you could get more complex and turn it into a multi-site install where each user get’s their own unique blog with gallery plugins – but moderation of posts and such with that setup may become more of a challenge – along with the extra headaches with running a multi blog network.

Anyhow – given the details you provided with your stated goals, I would forget about buddypress and multi-site – just install wordpress and do some searches in the wp-repo and themes section for “author pages”, “group blog” “post moderation” “front end uploads” and the various “Gallery” plugins – I think you can accomplish what you are going for pretty easily with lots of customization options.. without all the drawbacks and limitations of BP.

You can certainly create new tables but this should be done only if absolutely necessary. Take a look at the Creating Tables with Plugins article for more info.

As to whether this will be a good idea verses utilising the existing activity table, only you can decide. It’ll depend on what exactly you need to do.

Those are not featured post images, but images that are embedded at the very beginning of posts.

I can see that the problem doesn’t exist when you navigate to the post. The image is nicely floated left and comes before the text in the source. BuddyPress seems to be changing the order of the image and text when it comes to the activity stream display. I’m not so sure that’s a good thing.

You could open a Trac ticket for this requesting that the order of text and images remain the same as they were input in the post form?

Have you tested this BP compatible plugin ?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-idea-stream/

Read here if it helps.
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82239/make-display-name-unique

@bergblume

If I may suggest that instead you add to your robots.txt file some wildcard rules such as:
Disallow: *members/*activity*
Disallow: */activity/p/*

as to where I think it may be possible to pull some info from the activity posts to create page titles and other meta stuff, most activity posts are going to be short in most cases, and having a bunch of new pages indexed (even properly with title and meta stuff) is likely to add little value to your site overall – and in fact might create a situation where a bulk of your site pages are considered “thin content” – which would hurt your seo more than any proper page titles will on activity pages.

Considering you are also asking about methods for adding meta keywords, I think you are looking for SEO help that is waaaaaaay outdated – unless you are going for different search engines aside from the big G, bing / yahoo for some reason – in which case my knowledge of the other spiders and their indexing methods is tiny.

Now if you are trying to get proper page titles on your “groups” and member profile pages, I think that would be a worthwhile effort.

Just a few random suggestions, I am not a BP dev or prof coder yet – others may have different advice.

I think that getting and using this info will be better / easier perhaps about WP 4.4 or whenever they include the REST API in the core – and then it should be easy peazy for themes to pull and use this info – not that it should be rocket science to do it now… however I have had no luck getting help with similar issues on other BP pages in the past.

It usually boils down to BP peeps saying that page title and meta stuff should be handled by your theme.. your theme devs will say they use the standard wp_title function (or something like that – which has been flipped around recently) – and that kind of stuff if you want it to be beyond what is “standard wordpress” should be handled by an SEO plugin… my experience with several SEO plugins has been that they will not get into all the BP “pseudo pages” for whatever reason, perhaps because a taxonomy is not registered for them, and that makes it more difficult.

Random thoughts for ya

Custom code goes to bp-custom.php or child-theme’s functions.php
Code on second answer shows an usage example, it’s not the code you have to use.

As you asked for register details, i thinked you want a resume of the registration with all mandatory xprofile fields information…

BP on a single install doesn’t sent a welcome email. This happens only on a MS install. But you add that manually. Read here:

Send Welcome email to Users when they activate their account on WordPress & BuddyPress Based Social Network

1) depends which type of forum you use (standalone or group forum)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/

2) see here how to do that
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/add-dynamic-menu-link/#post-242487

3) i’m not aware of such feature for BP

Try this:

// depending the theme Main Menu, somwhere near Home, About, etc
function bpfr_custom_setup_nav( $items) {
	
    if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {		
        $items = '<li><a href="'. bp_get_loggedin_user_link() .'activity/news-feed/">News feed</a></li>';	
    }
    return $items;
}
// 10 is the priority, 1 is the position in the menu
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'bpfr_custom_setup_nav', 10, 1 );

 

References:

wp_nav_menu_items

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_nav_menu_items

A plugin isn’t strictly necessary, it’s just the easiest option. Alternatively, you can use the wp_mail_from and wp_mail_from_name hooks.